RE: Follow-Up: "Extract Fields" problem

["David Schopp" <dschopp@xxxxxxx>]

<shaking my head in disbelief>

Gads.  You'd think I'd have spotted that, wouldn't you?  My proofing skills
are hosed, I guess.

Yes, both you and Chris are right.  Not EXTRAS.LX, but FIELDS.LX.  My
apologies.

Yeesh.  I think I'll go back into my "lurker" status now...

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> Dave,
> Shouldn't the file in the first part be fields.lx and not extras.lx?
>
> -- Scott
>
>
>
>
> As a follow-up and summary:
>
> To avoid problem of fields with long text:
> 1.  Copy x:\WDT400\macros\extras.lx  to your macro folder.
> 2.  Edit your copy of the extras.lx macro.
>     At about line 326, change the statement
>           'insert 'stuff
>       to  'insert 'LEFT(stuff,80)
> 3.  Exit and save the extras.lx macro.
>
> To add "Extract Fields (LIST)" to right-click menu:
> 1.  Copy x:\WDT400\extras\profsys.lxu to your macro folder.
> 2.  Edit your copy of the profsys.lxu macro.
>     Toward the end of the macro, add the statement
>           'SET POPUPMENU.Extract_fields_(LIST) MACRO FIELDS'
>     between the line beginning with "if wordpos(" and the "end" line.
>     You will need to keep the apostrophes in the statement.
> 3.  Exit and save the profsys.lxu macro.
>
> Note:  I couldn't get the right-click functionality to work until I
> rebooted
> (actually, my system crashed - it IS Windows, after all).
> You will have to
> exit CodeEdit and possibly end the communications server
> before this works
> for you.  YMMV.
>
>
> Thanks to Scott Johnson!  He's my hero for the week!
> Dave
>